Women’s propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONEvery house we have lived in, every building to which our hands have lent their work, belongs to us by virtue of love or of regret.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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I don’t think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.
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The past can be tamed and controlled.
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the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.
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I love cloisters, which are the architectural equivalent of a theological concept: perfect freedom within set boundaries.
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truth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
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Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
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How do you think it would feel to be obliged to ask for a seat-belt extender on an airplane? For the unfashionably bulgy, life is a series of small humiliations.
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All our loves are contained in all our other loves.
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Italy offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.
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There is something worse than dying, and that is humiliation – at least so it seemed to me.
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There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
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Nothing is more democratic, less judgmental, than water. Water doesn’t care whether flesh is withered or fresh; it caresses aged flesh and firm flesh with equal love.
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Every house we have lived in, every building to which our hands have lent their work, belongs to us by virtue of love or of regret.
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Kindness and intelligence don’t always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.
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